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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Might be better this way

A couple of weeks ago, I finally took down the rest of the deck furniture for winter including the gazabo we bought this summer. I have to remember next year that I need to start putting things away sooner than late October because the weather turns quickly. It's better to do it and have a few wasted weeks were you could have still enjoyed sitting outside than to have to fight with bitter cold while you try to put everything away.

For any project I need the perfect storm of

Appropriate Weather (not to hot, cold, rain)

Sunlight

Materials (nothing like starting a project and finding out you don't have the right something)

Energy to do it (after work is not optimal)

Kids out of the way

I need to repair the deck railing but that will be a 2018 project. Depending on costs, we will either put in a permanent pergola or continue to buy cheap $100 gazabos, though hopefully we do a better job of securing it so it doesn't get bent and broken like our last one and we can re-use it.

We still don't know how much longer we will live in this house or what to do about the kids and school.